Michael Ocansey, CEO of Agrocenta (Ghana) shares how his initiative is helping farmers by linking them to large companies that can buy all their products, thus eliminating the middleman and fetch higher prices for their produce.
From 6 to 8 December, CCAFS theme 1 organized a workshop staged on the Addis Ababa campus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The workshop titled 'Developing climate-smart crops for 2030 world' involved over 40 participants from 16 countries, broadly divided along either sid...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[CCAFS Theme 1 workshop. Crop group summary - sorghum]
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CCAFS Theme 1 workshop. Crop group summary - sorghum
Live from Agriculture and Rural Development Day at Rio+20, 18 June 2012
http://www.agricultureday.org
Speakers:
- Addressing gender equity in access to natural resources -- Rajendra S. Paroda, Executive Secretary, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI)
- Strategi...
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Responding to the global challenges for a food secure future]
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Responding to the global challenges for a food secure future
Edinah Kyokusiima, Business Analyst at Akaboxi Ltd, explains how digitalising traditional practices that farmers use to monitor and manage savings can help them document and track their transactions, thus making it easier for them to access finance from banks and other institutions.
Kyokusiima, Edinah
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[Digitalising traditional practices for farmers to monitor and manage savings]
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Digitalising traditional practices for farmers to monitor and manage savings
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Transformative partnerships for a food-secure world]
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Transformative partnerships for a food-secure world
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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[Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change—An Overview]
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Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change—An Overview
Sweden has supported capacity building in biotechnology across east Africa for over 10 years. The Sida-backed program now being launched, Bio-Innovate, is moving to research, and to making sure that farmers and communities benefit from the new crop varieties and innovation systems that result fro...
Kjellstrom, C.
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[Research into Africa’s rich Bio-Resources is improving regional food security]
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Research into Africa’s rich Bio-Resources is improving regional food security
From 6 to 8 December, CCAFS theme 1 organized a workshop staged on the Addis Ababa campus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The workshop titled 'Developing climate-smart crops for 2030 world' involved over 40 participants from 16 countries, broadly divided along either sid...
Phil Thornton, of the International Livestock Research Institute (Kenya), and Andy Jarvis, of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (Colombia), have both joined a new climate change initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. These two scientists ar...
Biosciences offer the opportunity for many regions in Africa to produce surplus food for the first time. Without biosciences research within African agriculture will face a difficult future. The Bio-Innovate program is therefore important because it will stimulate new industries that are linked t...
International Livestock Research Institute
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[Bioscience will be the key that allows Africa to feed itself]
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Bioscience will be the key that allows Africa to feed itself